Family Bonds
Genealogies of Race and Gender
Ellen K. Feder(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 6. August 2007
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-19-531474-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ellen Feder's monograph is an attempt to think about the categories of race and gender together. She explains and then employs some critical tools derived from Foucault (particularly his ideas about systems of knowledge and the power that governs them), in order to advance her main argument: that the institution of the family is the locus of the production of gender and race, and that gender is best understood as a function of a "disciplinary" power that operates within the family, while race is the function of a "regulatory" power acting upon the family from outside. Her interdisciplinary work will be of interest to feminist philosophers and theorists because it plays into a recent expansion of interest in the family, as well as to literary scholars of Foucault, to scholars of race and race theory, and to other feminist scholars in political science, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Feminist philosophers/theorists working in political science, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, literary scholars of Foucault, scholars of race and race theory.
Illustrations
4 Abbildungen
4 illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-19-531474-8 (9780195314748)
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Person
Ellen K. Feder, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, American University
Content
1. Foucaultian Method: A New Tale to Tell; 2. The Family in the Tower: The Triumph of Levittown and the Production of a New Whiteness; 3. Boys Will Be Boys: Disciplinary Power and the Production of Gender; 4. Of Monkeys and Men: Biopower and the Production of Race; 5. Thinking Gender, Thinking Race